Recent blog entries by djweis

After approximately a 10-14 hour downtime at the hands of
our Nokia boxes, they have been replaced with a P-100
running linux 2.4.0. Our site sure seems faster, but
everyone thinks I'm just making that up. :-) I don't know
when we'll try to get the Nokia's working again, but I fear
we will at some point.

Let me tell you about Nokia IP440 firewalls. They aren't as
much fun as they would appear to be. Luckily for my sense
of thriftyness, some one else purchased them before I
started. Their web based config is nice until you realized
that you can't do anything more exciting than set IP
addresses and make VRRP links without using the Checkpoint
Windows GUI. Ugh. I think I'll play a bit with VRRP today
and see how well the stuff works. It almost smells like it
should be a kernel level protocol with a user-space helper,
instead of the completely userspace device they have now.